"Bebbington Quadrilateral"

Barack Obama: Evangelical-in-Chief?

How Christians might think about the President's faith.

Judd Birdsall

posted 6/21/2012 10:53AM

The most widely accepted definition of evangelicalism comes from British historian David Bebbington. According to Bebbington, an evangelical is a Christian marked by four distinct emphases:

- "conversionism, the belief that lives need to be changed;
- activism, the expression of the gospel in effort;
- biblicism, a particular regard for the Bible;
and what may be termed
- crucicentrism, a stress on the sacrifice of Christ on the cross."

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